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Lesley McClendon is one of our 2014 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators and a top 16 "Lead PBS Digital Innovators". She contributes this post on how she's spending her summer.
When Rosemary Jean Louis of GPB invited...

This week one of our PBS Digital Innovators, Lesley McClendon, goes to PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va to attend the PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator Summit. It is being held June 19-20, 2014.
McClendon was...

The Macon Telegraph has this wonderful interview with 2014 Georgia Teacher of the Year Amanda Miliner.
Miliner teaches fourth grade at Miller Elementary in Houston County. As the state’s top teacher, she’ll serve as...

Today, Governor Deal announced 24 Georgia teachers who have achieved the “Master Teacher” certification.
The Master Teacher Certification Program began in 2005 to acknowledge excellence in student achievement and...

She was a singer, an author, a poet, an activist, a mother and a friend to many. But Maya Angelou was also a master teacher. She died last week at her home in Winston-Salem, NC at age 86. Her private funeral be held...

Each summer as teachers leave their classrooms for that much needed summer break many head for the solitude of a long vacation, a vacation combined with learning, plan a “staycation” or look for some interesting...

The Breman Museum is offering an opportunity to gain four PLUs through a summer workshop on the holocaust.
The Birnbaum Summer Institute for Teaching the Holocaust is a five day workshop that prepares educators to...

Canned New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson joined the ranks of the most memorable commencement speakers yesterday. Yes in her speech at Wake Forest University, she rallied grads to “show what you’re made of...

Google is offering a preview of its new tool for teachers: Google Classroom. (You can apply for it here.) Google Classroom meshes the apps we’re already familiar with Google Docs, Drive and Gmail to help teachers...

Continuing our appreciation of teachers during National Teacher Appreciation Week, we’ve been following the twitter conversation under the hashtag #pbslovesteachers on the question “why do you love to teach?”
The...